Today I woke up feeling strange... feeling sad... feeling depressed... but why...
was I in the middle of a war? No... Was I living the last day of my life? No... Was I going back to Earth? No... Hang on a minte... I groanded. Today I was going back to earth. I got out of my sleeping bag and sort of swam to the toilet. How I would miss that toilet... I got dressed and I had to chase my clothes because they kept floating away. How I would miss zero gravity...
'How are you feeling?' I asked Anthony Rickwood 'What do you mean? he replied. 'I mean about returning back to earth.' Anthony floated up and down for a bit. Looking at the test tubes containing minerals. Finally he said,'Well, we have had an adventure: you were the first woman on the moon and we have proved that our theory about the Moon Minerals is correct, don't you think it was all worth it?'
A while after that, we boarded the space shuttle.
We were flying at 17500 miles an hour.
We were bursting through the atmosphere and before I knew it, gravity had come back and the 'Andromida 1' had landed in Kazakstan...
I was back on the Blue Planet, Planet Earth...
Monday, June 28, 2010
Sunday, June 27, 2010
The Moon Landing
Today I woke up and found myself floating upside down half way down the control room.
TODAY IT WAS THE BIG DAY!!!!!! I WAS GOING TO STAND ON THE MOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I let out a shriek of joy, a grumpy looking cosmonaut floated in and gave me a quizzical look. I blushed and drifted away.
After a while, when everyone of my team was awake, we had breakfast. Breakfast was served on a tray with straps to prevent it from floating away. After that, we helped each other into space suits. The space suits protect us from extreme heat and cold,(120 degrees Celsius in the sun and-100 degrees Celsius in the shade) dangerous rays, like cosmic rays and solar wind. It has communication devices, two hours more oxygen needed incase something goes wrong, and a even a in-suit urine collector!!
While we were boarding the space shuttle to go to the Moon, every TV on Planet Earth was on.
Young children were looking up at the moon to see if they could see people walking on it. You could hear the adults say,' just like the moon landing in 1969!'
I was looking out of the window of the space shuttle, the moon was coming closer. Anthony and Bob were having a conversation about the moon minerals, but I was only half listening. The shuttle started to slow down. 'Everyone, helmets on!' I said. and we all climbed into the landing capsule. We strapped ourselves in and we got shot out onto the moon.
The landing was fine, everything was controlled with parachutes and airbags. Bob opened the door and I let out the ladder (we had practiced this beforehand). Anthony went first with the camera. This was it. I was about to change the knowledge that only men had been on the Moon. I took a deep breath and climbed down the ladder. 'A small step for one woman, a giant leap for all'
TODAY IT WAS THE BIG DAY!!!!!! I WAS GOING TO STAND ON THE MOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I let out a shriek of joy, a grumpy looking cosmonaut floated in and gave me a quizzical look. I blushed and drifted away.
After a while, when everyone of my team was awake, we had breakfast. Breakfast was served on a tray with straps to prevent it from floating away. After that, we helped each other into space suits. The space suits protect us from extreme heat and cold,(120 degrees Celsius in the sun and-100 degrees Celsius in the shade) dangerous rays, like cosmic rays and solar wind. It has communication devices, two hours more oxygen needed incase something goes wrong, and a even a in-suit urine collector!!
While we were boarding the space shuttle to go to the Moon, every TV on Planet Earth was on.
Young children were looking up at the moon to see if they could see people walking on it. You could hear the adults say,' just like the moon landing in 1969!'
I was looking out of the window of the space shuttle, the moon was coming closer. Anthony and Bob were having a conversation about the moon minerals, but I was only half listening. The shuttle started to slow down. 'Everyone, helmets on!' I said. and we all climbed into the landing capsule. We strapped ourselves in and we got shot out onto the moon.
The landing was fine, everything was controlled with parachutes and airbags. Bob opened the door and I let out the ladder (we had practiced this beforehand). Anthony went first with the camera. This was it. I was about to change the knowledge that only men had been on the Moon. I took a deep breath and climbed down the ladder. 'A small step for one woman, a giant leap for all'
Daily life in space
It has been half an hour after the launch of the 'Andromeda 1' space shuttle and now I am orbiting the earth at 17500 miles per hour. Before I set foot on the moon, we will stop at the I.S.S., the International Space Station to do some experiments with minerals on earth and how they react in space. We will sleep there for 5 nights.
We just entered the ISS.
This is the first time that I am not strapped in and now I feel the effects of a zero gravity environment. On earth there are clear rules: up is above you and down is beneath. However in a zero, or low gravity environment, when you are floating about, it doesn't really matter. There are straps and handles every were to prevent that you float away while doing research or an experiment.
We were greeted enthusiastically by other astronauts and one cosmonaut.
after a lot of upside down hand shaking and floating around, I was feeling rather sick, so Bob 'Bossy' Bloxon showed me to my room. Well, if you could call it a room. It was basically a space as big as a cupboard with a kind of a sleeping bag attached to it. There was no bathroom. Instead, astronauts and cosmonauts would brush their teeth using a chewable toothbrush and they would not shower at all. The toilet was truly strange; it was a vacuum sucking toilet, otherwise you would have- well anyway, I won't go into the details...
All the waste gets shot back to earth and burnt in the atmosphere.
We just entered the ISS.
This is the first time that I am not strapped in and now I feel the effects of a zero gravity environment. On earth there are clear rules: up is above you and down is beneath. However in a zero, or low gravity environment, when you are floating about, it doesn't really matter. There are straps and handles every were to prevent that you float away while doing research or an experiment.
We were greeted enthusiastically by other astronauts and one cosmonaut.
after a lot of upside down hand shaking and floating around, I was feeling rather sick, so Bob 'Bossy' Bloxon showed me to my room. Well, if you could call it a room. It was basically a space as big as a cupboard with a kind of a sleeping bag attached to it. There was no bathroom. Instead, astronauts and cosmonauts would brush their teeth using a chewable toothbrush and they would not shower at all. The toilet was truly strange; it was a vacuum sucking toilet, otherwise you would have- well anyway, I won't go into the details...
All the waste gets shot back to earth and burnt in the atmosphere.
The day of launch
Today I woke up feeling strange...feeling happy...feeling exited... But why? Was it a new millennium? No, that was 12 years ago... Was it the national day of peace? No, that was in 50 years... Was it the world wide firework exhibition? No, that would be when I was in space. Hang on a minute... And then I remembered. TODAY I WAS GOING INTO SPACE!!!!! I jumped out of bed and got dressed so fast that when I looked in the mirror I found out that I had my clothes the wrong way round. When I fixed my clothes and had a quick breakfast, grabbed my suit cases and got into the car. I had a last look at my house and drove to NASA...
The atmosphere in the camp was very tense. Everyone was doing some last minute training; flying a plane, maneuvering under water, weight lifting and running obstacle courses. To get used to a zero gravity environment, the astronauts would sit in a plane with mattresses on all the walls ceiling and floor. The pilot would fly up very high and then stop the motors in mid air. The plane would fall down and that would be when the people inside would be weightless. Just like driving over a bump on the road. Then the pilot would start the motors and fly up again.
At about four o'clock in the afternoon we were driving to the shuttle launching platform. My head was full of thoughts that you get when you are nervous. 'What if the shuttle explodes, what if I faint, what if I press a wrong button...' When we arrived, I saw the shuttle. Like a great big monster looking down at us and suddenly, I felt confident. How could such a great rocket let us down?
We were walking up the ladder, we said goodbye to our loved ones,And before I knew it I was sitting in the space shuttle breathed in deeply. This was it. The count down began. '10,9,8,check all engines 7,6,5, all engines on 4,3, prepare for launching 2,1... The shuttle let out a almighty roar. I was stuck to my seat, the pressure pressing me down. Nine whole minutes I could not move, I was going to die, my head was hurting I was just a few seconds from doom... And then as suddenly as it started, it stopped. And a voice said: 'Lift of successful we are now in orbit'
The atmosphere in the camp was very tense. Everyone was doing some last minute training; flying a plane, maneuvering under water, weight lifting and running obstacle courses. To get used to a zero gravity environment, the astronauts would sit in a plane with mattresses on all the walls ceiling and floor. The pilot would fly up very high and then stop the motors in mid air. The plane would fall down and that would be when the people inside would be weightless. Just like driving over a bump on the road. Then the pilot would start the motors and fly up again.
At about four o'clock in the afternoon we were driving to the shuttle launching platform. My head was full of thoughts that you get when you are nervous. 'What if the shuttle explodes, what if I faint, what if I press a wrong button...' When we arrived, I saw the shuttle. Like a great big monster looking down at us and suddenly, I felt confident. How could such a great rocket let us down?
We were walking up the ladder, we said goodbye to our loved ones,And before I knew it I was sitting in the space shuttle breathed in deeply. This was it. The count down began. '10,9,8,check all engines 7,6,5, all engines on 4,3, prepare for launching 2,1... The shuttle let out a almighty roar. I was stuck to my seat, the pressure pressing me down. Nine whole minutes I could not move, I was going to die, my head was hurting I was just a few seconds from doom... And then as suddenly as it started, it stopped. And a voice said: 'Lift of successful we are now in orbit'
Saturday, June 26, 2010
The first woman on the moon
I can’t believe it. I simply can’t believe it. Today my boss called me to his office said he needed to find out about certain minerals that have been found on the moon. Of course, I knew about this mission, as originally he hired my colleagues Jason Marrols, Bob ''Bossy'' Bloxon, Athony Rickwood and Simon Eel. However, my boss told me this afternoon, that Simon has depression problems and therefore is not able to go. I wondered why Mr. Philip (that's my boss) told me this. When I asked him, he looked me straight in the eyes and said: ‘Alicia Pearl, you will be the first woman on the moon.'
When I first told my friends Sally and Carl, they were both gobsmacked and it took a while for them to be able to form proper sentences instead of 'you...moon...woman...no way...' Once the news got out into the open, I was like a famous pop star. I could not concentrate at the mission meeting, because people kept giving me the thumbs up and shaken my hand. And when we did our every day fitness training I kept falling over because every time I looked round there were people congratulating me.
Finally after four or five hours, when my hand had been shaken so many times it felt like it might fall of, Sally invited Carl and me round to her house to have dinner. The dinner was an unusual one, food that we would eat in space; dried fruit, salted beef and for desert ice cream.
After dinner I went home feeling as happy as a lark, for I, Alicia Pearl, will be the first woman on the moon. 'A small step for one woman, a giant leap for all' I said to myself. And grinning I walked through the streets into the glorious sunset...
When I first told my friends Sally and Carl, they were both gobsmacked and it took a while for them to be able to form proper sentences instead of 'you...moon...woman...no way...' Once the news got out into the open, I was like a famous pop star. I could not concentrate at the mission meeting, because people kept giving me the thumbs up and shaken my hand. And when we did our every day fitness training I kept falling over because every time I looked round there were people congratulating me.
Finally after four or five hours, when my hand had been shaken so many times it felt like it might fall of, Sally invited Carl and me round to her house to have dinner. The dinner was an unusual one, food that we would eat in space; dried fruit, salted beef and for desert ice cream.
After dinner I went home feeling as happy as a lark, for I, Alicia Pearl, will be the first woman on the moon. 'A small step for one woman, a giant leap for all' I said to myself. And grinning I walked through the streets into the glorious sunset...
Friday, June 25, 2010
Resource list
Resource list.
Books
Realm of the universe, Abell, Morisson and Wolff,
Space, Simon Holland, Eyewonder
Websites
http://www.fi.edu/pieces/hiley/history.htm
People
Anjelique from Space Expo
Mr. Valengard
Field trips
Space Expo Noordwijk
With special thanks to Space Expo Noordwijk, for giving me most of my information.
Books
Realm of the universe, Abell, Morisson and Wolff,
Space, Simon Holland, Eyewonder
Websites
http://www.fi.edu/pieces/hiley/history.htm
People
Anjelique from Space Expo
Mr. Valengard
Field trips
Space Expo Noordwijk
With special thanks to Space Expo Noordwijk, for giving me most of my information.
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